by David Stone
Our guests had gone home, hours ago. Dishes done, drying on the rack, you lounged in one of our old chairs, reading God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. A lamp hung a lemon umbrella above you. Across the room, I sunk into Robert Lowell, interrupting you all the time to read out loud verses that stung me. Rimsky-Korsakoff met the rustle of summer at our window. It was one, two, three, four a.m.... You started to say something. If there was one thing more in the world worth living for, I didn’t know it.
- See also: Binghamton: A Narrative In Verse
Stack Work Advances While Answers Do Not
HPD told the CAG there was no projected start date and that five business days’ notice would be given. Work on the eastern smokestack began six days later.
On June 17 and 18, HPD told the first meeting of the Roosevelt Island Steam Plant Demolition Community Advisory Group that smokestack demolition had no projected start date. Residents and the CAG would receive at least five business days’ advance notice once a date was set. Scaffolding around the stacks could not proceed until soil removal and backfill were complete and the area stabilized.
